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Doing Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Kathryn Pyn Addelson
Kathryn Pyn Addelson*
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Smith College
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It is not easy to ask serious questions about sex and gender in the construction of science. Science is so constructed that the questions keep being transformed into something else. Sometimes into “external” questions about social context. Or into historical questions about bad science in the past (now corrected). Or into questions about suspect sciences like anthropology or primatology, but not real sciences like physics. Or into political questions about equal opportunity. Or perhaps into the ravings of Marxists and Feminists. It is particularly difficult to ask serious questions about sex and gender in philosophy of science, because of the ways in which its scholars have reconstructed science.

In “Primatology Is Politics by Other Means”, Donna Haraway talks about sex and gender so as to reformulate the way we talk about science. As I read her paper, there are two main investigatory concepts she uses. One is “social organization”.

Type
Part XI. New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1984 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1984 , 1984 , pp. 543 - 548
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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